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A 9 page paper. This essay discusses the relationship between fashion and identity, both individual identity and cultural identity. Examples are offered to demonstrate dress and cultural identity. The relationship between dress, image, and identity is discussed using numerous sources. The writer comments on different styles for men and women through certain time periods, demonstrating women's fashion changes more often then men's fashion. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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research on the Internet and use only those sources that are sponsored by legitimate organizations, such as colleges/universities. More often than not, the most relevant information for a subject can
be found through careful Internet research. Our primary purpose at TPS is to gather research and write a draft paper the student can then use as a model for their
own final paper. Please remember you must cite TPS as one of your sources.] Barnard asserts that fashion is extremely powerful (2002). Fashion, Barnard says, can maintain cultural roles
and responsibilities (2002). This is true whether the setting is a royal palace or a Laundromat (Barnard, 2002). Barnard promotes the thesis that fashion is related to power (Barnard, 2002).
Hannover and Kuhnen investigated the effect that clothing style had on self-descriptions (2002). The descriptions related specific trait categories (Hannover and Kuhnen, 2002). They directed participants to arrive dressed either
in casual or formal wear and when participants arrived, they were asked to quickly describe themselves by either rejecting or endorsing certain trait adjectives (Hannover and Kuhnen, 2002). Participants who
were dressed formally used more formal adjectives, such as accurate or cultivated, and participants who were dressed casually used more casual adjectives, such as easygoing and tolerant, to describe themselves
(Hannover and Kuhnen, 2002). Another result was that those dressed in a more formal manner described themselves more quickly than those dressed in casual attire (Hannover and Kuhnen, 2002).
As the saying goes: "Clothes maketh the man" (Economist, 2004). Like it or not, what we wear really does matter (Economist, 2004). Consider the Parisienne who strolls along a major
boulevard wearing a Christian Lacroix skirt, a Moschino jacket and Manolo Blahnik shoes (Economist, 2004). Observers identify her with a particular set of people (Economist, 2004). Fashion itself is
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